fajrdrako | Torchwood and time travel... (Reply)

I was musing over Captain Jack's time travel capabilities. Do we have any reason to think he can't travel in time whenever he wishes?

Put another way: do we know anything about the time-travel methods of the Time Agents?

Jack did not lose his capacity for time travel when he left the Time Agency, since he was still dashing off to times/places like "London 1941" and "Pompeii Volcano Day" whenever he wished. It was not done with the technology of his Chula ship, which was a more recent acquisition. If it was done with his wrist-band technology, he still has that, just as he still has the mechanism to scan for alien tech.

We don't see him using his time-travel techniques in the Doctor Who episodes "Boomtown", "Bad Wolf", or "The Parting of the Ways", but he doesn't need to - he's where he wants to be, and he has the TARDIS to travel in. If he can still travel in time and/or space with Time Agent methods, it explains how he got off the game station - and that the Doctor knew he could leave.

I'd been thinking that the hand was the only thing Jack still had of the Doctor's, but I think now I was wrong. He must still have his TARDIS key, which he had in his pocket at the end of "The Parting of the Ways".

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